{"id":27700,"date":"2019-09-04T11:46:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T10:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.okappy.com\/?post_type=avada_portfolio&#038;p=27700"},"modified":"2020-12-23T13:25:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T13:25:36","slug":"employees-or-subcontractors-what-is-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.okappy.com\/support-article\/employees-or-subcontractors-what-is-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Employees or subcontractors, what is the difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:31px;\"><h1 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">Employees or subcontractors, what is the difference?<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><p>With Okappy&#8217;s unique market network, you can invite your subcontractors to join you on Okappy, send them jobs and see the status of those jobs as they&#8217;re updated in real-time.<\/p>\n<p>But, when should you set someone up as an employee and when should you set them up as a subcontractor?<\/p>\n<p>When adding connections on Okappy, you can add a customer, a subcontractor and an employee. \u00a0Both customers and subcontractors are classed as companies on Okappy and can have one or more employees. \u00a0That is the key difference and impacts how various functionality works.<\/p>\n<p>Read on to understand the key differences between a subcontractor or employee.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\" style=\"transform:translate3d(0,0,0);\"><h3>Jobs<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You can allocate jobs to employees or subcontractors<\/li>\n<li>Employees will receive an alert advising that a job has been assigned to them<\/li>\n<li>Your employee will be able to see who the customer is<\/li>\n<li>As a subcontractor is a company, the job will not be automatically assigned to a particular employee of that company<\/li>\n<li>All administrators at the subcontractor will receive an alert (unless disabled by their settings) advising that the job has been added<\/li>\n<li>All administrators at the subcontractor can view the jobs assigned to them on their computer, tablet or mobile<\/li>\n<li>The subcontractor can assign the job to their employee, or even assign it to another subcontractor<\/li>\n<li>You cannot see who your subcontract has assigned the job to. Likewise, they cannot see\u00a0who your customer is<\/li>\n<li>Jobs which you archive will still be available to your subcontractor. They will need to authorise the job as well once they have finished with it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Invoicing<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Your subcontractors can raise invoices to you and you can pay your subcontractors via Okappy<\/li>\n<li>Employees cannot raise invoices to you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You can create notes on Okappy. These are internal to your company. They can be viewed by your employees but not subcontractors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Tracking<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You can view the latest locations of your employees and configure tracking<\/li>\n<li>As a subcontractor is a company, you cannot see the location of their employees in the radar view<\/li>\n<li>You can view the time and location of each job update whether update by your employee or subcontractor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Messaging<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You can send internal messages to your employees, as a subcontractor is a company you cannot send an internal message to them although you can send text messages if you a phone number set up for them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Access control<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You can set up an employee as a standard user or an administrator. \u00a0Standard users can only see their jobs, administrators can see all jobs<\/li>\n<li>See our support page &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okappy.com\/support-article\/okappy-user-types\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">user types<\/a> for more information<\/li>\n<li>A subcontractor adds their own employees and sets their individual \u00a0access levels<\/li>\n<li>You can set and change passwords for your employees<\/li>\n<li>Subcontractors set their own passwords<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Pricing<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Employees are billed per employee per month. \u00a0Subcontractors can be invited at no cost<\/li>\n<li>Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okappy.com\/pricing\/\">pricing page<\/a> for more information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read on to understand the key differences between a subcontractor or employee and what information they can see on Okappy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"portfolio_category":[],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.6.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Employees or subcontractors, what is the difference? - Okappy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Build you network of employees and subcontractors on Okappy. 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